Nature ProtectionComputers project that between now and the year of 2030 we are going to have increase of the average temperature between 1,5—4,5 Degrees C. Sea levels would rise by several metres, flooding coastal areas and ruining vast tracts of farmland. Huge areas would be infertile and become uninhabitable. Water contamination could lead to shortages of safe drinking water. It looks like the end of civilization on the Earth. For hundreds of thousands of years the human race has thriven in Earth's environment. But now, at the end of the 20th century, we are at a crucial turning point. We have upset nature's sensitive equilibrium releasing harmful substances into the air, polluting rivers and oceans with industrial waste and tearing up the countryside to accommodate our rubbish. These are the consequences of the development of civilization. We are to stop it by joint efforts of all the people of the world. The range of environmental problems is wide. But the matters of people's great concern nowadays are atmosphere and climate changes, depletion of the ozone layer, freshwater resources, oceans and coastal areas, deforestation and desertification, biological diversity, biotechnology, health and chemical safety. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) concentrates its activities on these issues. Acid Rains One of the most alarming forms of air pollution is acid rain. It results from the release into the atmosphere of sulphur and nitrogen oxides that react with water droplets and return to earth in the form of acid rain, mist or snow. Acid rain iskilling forests (Nearly every species of tree is affected) It has acidified lakes and streams and they can't support fish, wildlife, plants or insects. Depletion of the Ozone Layer The protective layer of the Earth, the ozone layer, which protects the Earth from the sun's destructive UV (ultraviolet) rays, is being damaged by CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons). They are released by the daily use of industrial and household...

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Until well into the nineteenth century, knowledge was considered by Europeans to have two main divisions: the humanities (including theology), and studies of nature. Studies of nature could in turn be divided, with natural history being the descriptive counterpart to natural philosophy, the analytical study of nature. In modern terms, natural philosophy roughly corresponded to modernphysics and chemistry, while natural history included the biological and geological sciences. The two were strongly associated. During the heyday of the gentleman scientists, many people contributed to both fields, and early papers in both were commonly read at professional science society meetings such as the Royal Society and the French Academy of Sciences – both founded during the seventeenth century.
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Earth is so large, that even if humans destroy ourselves, plus most other life forms, there will still be nature. The soil, oceans, atmosphere and weather would still interact with solar power to allow some life to exist. Earth cannot be a barren place like the moon. Humans can, then, reduce our planetary paradise into a hell of sorts, but cannot, I believe, destroy the planet itself.
This thought, sober and gloomy, is a modern one; in earlier ages it is unlikely that people contemplated ourselves wiping-out most life on earth. I don't know why I brought it to the forefront of my nature essay. It does offer a perspective.
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...learns that nature has a bigger impact on one, than it might look.
Second, Crabbe learns that if he were to live off on his own in nature, without Mary, he would die in a matter of a few weeks. Crabbe learns that the basic essentials of life are still needed to live in the wilderness when Mary teaches him them. “I grabbed a little self-respect out too” (Bell 51). “...The few novels I packed were sopping wet through” (Bell 51). “... My snacks were wet too” (Bell 51). These quotations tell the reader, that Crabbe thought he was totally prepared to live on his own from his point of view, but from nature’s point of view, he was never really prepared the day he had set out from the lack of his inexperience. Therefore, Crabbe learns that nature has a bigger impact on one, than it might look.
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...﻿Monica Orozco
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Beauty in Nature
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...﻿Sami Ali
Mr. Ringo
English 11-12 E
21 September 2013
Nature and its Value In the Three Readings
Nature has a life of its own, yet we don’t realize it; in fact we are surrounded by it. Nevertheless we human beings give a blind eye to nature in which we live in, deforestation, pollution, global warming, all of these factors are affecting the nature in which we live in, yet we don’t care, and continue in wrecking it. What is life without nature? Nature is a resort where people of all ages flee to in order to release their tension and keep all the worries of the world behind their back and enjoy the tranquility of nature. Nature, a home in which everyone belongs to. Three readings, “Fish Story,” “River Walking,” “Walking,” written by Rick Bass, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Henry David Thoreau respectively, all talk about nature and their experiences with it, and their are many themes which relate to all three readings, but there is one which is interesting to talk about; a theme in which all the authors of the story have a valuable recreation which allows them to interact with nature, and with each interaction a value of nature can be depicted.
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...Diego Del Rio
Nature, Healthy to the Environment and You
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